NOBLE COUNTY OHIO - BIO: Richard Thorla (1887)

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Transcribed by Deb Murray.

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Richard Thorla, one of the pioneers of the township, was born in
Newburyport, Mass., October 13, 1791. When he was a child his parents
removed to New Hampshire, where he lived until 1815. In that year in
company with William McAllister and family he came to Marietta. In 1817 he
married Camilla McAllister and settled on the Ohio River, about a mile
above the mouth of Duck Creek. In 1818, with two of the McAllisters -
William and his son James - he visited Illinois, going down the Ohio and up
the Mississippi in a pirogue as far as the mouth of the Kaskaskia. They
were not pleased with the country or the climate and started for home,
crossing the Wabash at Vincennes and making their way toward North Bend.
Before they reached the Ohio William McAllister died and was buried by his
son and son-in-law in Hartford, Ohio County, Ind. The younger McAllister
and Thorla eventually reached home, though suffering greatly from disease
caused by the malarious climate to which they had exposed themselves. In
1819 Thorla entered a quarter section of land on Dye's Fork, in Brookfield
and in 1823 removed to it with his wife and family of two children. He died
in 1859 at the age of sixty-eight; his widow died in 1878, aged eighty-six.
Their children were Elvira, who married Seth Andrews, and was the mother of
Prof. Martin R. Andrews, of Marietta; Caroline, who married John Jamison;
Mary, wife of Simon Nickerson, now living in Oregon; F.W., who lives on the
home place; A.H., who married Martha Stevens; he enlisted in November,
1861, Company I, Sixty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served three
years. A. H. Thorla occupies a part of the homestead farm. His children
living are Maggie, Minnie and Richard V.

History of Noble County, Ohio Published by 
L.H. Watkins & Co. of Chicago 1887
Brookfield